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Stupid Battledroids ! (continued)

Stillakid, that is a good point about Maul being an outsider in a time of war, and Panaka should have fired on the guy, he even made a move!

As for Panaka's line about the Droids being "battle hardened", you're absolutely right, they were neither hardened to the emotional scars of war, nor were they even in a battle previous to the occupation of Naboo to work out the bugs in the systems, at least according to the EU source material. I guess at BEST, they could have had mock-battles against each other (which might explain their shabby condition), but even then, how would Panaka know they were battle-hardened? I think he was just afraid and jumping to conclusions, but I guess the problem is it's a poor scene.

Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.

"In Brooklyn, a castle, is where dwell I"

The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.

Thanks

Thanks for the backup. I've been quite vocal lately about problems that I see in TPM (and accurate, I believe), but have come under attack for being too critical in my, well, critique. This "little" scene under current discussion highlights perfectly what I've been trying to get across.

One word makes a huge difference here, so what it comes down to is volunteers vs. massive. Who couldn't get the impression with that? ''Volunteer'' implies small and limited, and they would obviously be endangered by a droid army of that size.

Stilliakid, what are some other lines that could use a fresher word or two ?